Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Excerpt from:  A.M. Vitals: Anticipating the Health Law Ruling  Read More →

As more of us live longer, we increasingly face the question of how to pay the rising cost of extended care, whether in a nursing home, an assisted-living center or at home. And the potential amounts are huge: The average cost of private room in a nursing... 

It’s official – the Obama administration is proposing to push back by a year the deadline for a new medical-coding standard that was originally set to go into effect on October 1, 2013. Federal regulators had previously signaled that they would postpone... 

Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Justices Question Health Law (WSJ): The Supreme Court’s conservative justices sharply challenged the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul Tuesday, raising the prospect that... 

The incidence of life-threatening allergies is on the rise, but parents are finding more allies in their efforts to protect their children. WSJ reporter Liz Rappaport is the mother of one such child, and has written about the way laws are changing to... 

Paying doctors and hospitals for high-quality care, rather than for volume of care , is central to slowing the growth of health costs, lots of health wonks say. But figuring out how to do that is really tough. Latest example: A provision in the health-care... 

If you think U.S. health-care spending is out of control today, just wait a decade. A View original post here: Report Paints Dark Picture of Health-Care Costs in 2019  Read More →

All of the drugs approved to treat multiple sclerosis are given by injection, which is less comfortable and less convenient than taking a pill. Novartis is one of several drug makers working on pills to treat the disease, and the company said today that... 

There’s been a lot of focus – including in my column today – on the subsidies that the health-overhaul bills would provide to aid lower-income people in paying their health insurance premiums. But there’s another twist that may matter just as... 

Here are a few of the stories on the health-care overhaul that caught our eye this morning: Abortion continues to play a role in the health care debate, the New York Times reports . The issue is dividing Dems, the article says. Some argue that the current...